It was found in a wastebasket, outside a neighborhood pub and located about 500 feet from a train trestle.
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The explosion in Elizabeth, New Jersey, followed two others over the weekend – one of which left dozens of people injured in a busy Manhattan neighborhood.
Yesterday, five explosive devices were discovered at an Elizabeth train station.
Mayor Bollwage said that the men are being questioned at police headquarters but are not suspected of building or planting the device.
“I think the good news is, I do think the perpetrators here are now much more inside the bull’s eye of the investigation”, he said.
The bomb squad had a robot take pictures, which determined there were five explosive devices inside the backpack, Bollwage said.
The 1 train has resumed making normal stops at its 23rd and 28th street stations, though the northeast stairway at the 23rd Street station remains closed, according to @NYCTSubway. During the process, one of the devices detonated.
“If you look at a number of these incidents, you can call them whatever you want: they are terrorism though”, New Jersey’s Republican Governor Chris Christie, a member of the Trump campaign, told CNN.
The FBI was leading the investigation and working to disarm the other four devices.
Police checked all garbage cans in the immediate area, but found no other suspicious items. Also Saturday, a pipe bomb exploded about an hour from the Elizabeth train station in Seaside Park, New Jersey, forcing the cancellation of a military charity 5K run.
However, according to the New York Times, the bombs in Manhattan were both filled with “fragmentation material” such as BB pellets or small ball bearings.
On Monday, New York police said they were looking for 28-year-old Ahmad Khan Rahami in connection with the Chelsea bombing.
“There were certain commonalities among the bombs”, Cuomo said on MSNBC Monday, referring to all of the bombs found in NY and New Jersey on Saturday and Monday. All 29 of the injured people were released from the hospital by Sunday afternoon.
NY was on high alert since a pressure cooker device explosion on Saturday rocked the Chelsea district of Manhattan and another similar device was found just four blocks away.
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“We do not have any specific evidence of a connection, but that will continue to be considered”, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said. “We’re not taking any options off the table”.
Authorities converged on the apartment just before 6 a.m. Authorities say it was not a controlled explosion.
In the Midwest, an assailant reported to be Somali-American went on a stabbing spree in a shopping mall in St. Cloud, Minnesota, injuring nine people before being shot dead by an off-duty police officer.
In the video, the man leaves the duffel bag where police later found the unexploded pressure cooker.
NYPD and FBI Bomb technicians rendered the device safe. A forensic examination of the device and its components will be conducted at the FBI Laboratory at Quantico, Virginia.
Stepped-up security across the city is common as world leaders arrive for the United Nations General Assembly meeting, which is underway.
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“In many of these cases, we don’t know until two, three or four days later whether or not there is a terrorist link”, warned New York Congressman Peter King in a CBS television interview.
